Using YA Fiction to Help Young People Process Big Issues
For a few decades now, teens have flocked to YA novels like The Hunger Games or The Fault in Our Stars. Why are they so popular? We talk …
Using the ‘Voices in Your Head’ (2019)
Hearing voices in your head comes with an unfortunate stereotype that you must be mentally ill. However, experts tell us the “voices in …
Culture Crash: Summer Concerts
Summer is almost here, which means the concert and music festival season in almost in full swing. We talk a look at why a day at an …
Life in the Shadow of the Columbine High School Shooting (2019)
On April 20, 1999, Sue Klebold’s son and his friend went into Columbine High School and committed one of the largest mass shootings in …
Raising Financially-Minded Children
All parents want their kids to succeed and live good lives, and part of accomplishing that is raising them to understand the value of a …
Culture Crash: Junk Food TV (2019)
Sometimes you want to watch an expertly written and produced hour of television with central themes and a commentary on modern life… and …
Mindfulness in Life, Leadership and Collaboration
The hustle and bustle of the world can overwhelm us all from time to time. Expert Marc Lesser talks about how we can embrace mindfulness …
Harry Potter Therapy
The Harry Potter series is full of creatures and storylines that parallel real-life adversities like depression, PTSD and grief in a …
Culture Crash: Do we all have the cultural taste of our 15 year-old selves?
Anecdotal evidence and some real data science both suggest that we never grow out of the things we loved at 15.
A More Ethical Garden
Spring is almost here! That means it’s time to start thinking about gardens and landscaping. Expert Benjamin Vogt has a new way to …
A Fantasy Series that Aims at Teaching Children to Consider Some Big Questions
We grow up hearing nursery rhymes and fairy tales that deal with good and evil. All of us fondly remember the cartoons of our youth and …
Culture Crash: Netflix’s Russian Doll
Netflix’s new show, Russian Doll is an ethical, mysterious, funny drama modeled after the Groundhog Day “waking up in the same moment” …
What Big Data Can Teach Us About Ourselves (2019)
These days, there is data on just about everything. Our social media presence, our careers, our web search history- it’s all crunched …
Exploring What It Means for Women to be ‘Brave, Not Perfect’
Reshma Saujani is a lawyer, a former political candidate, an author and the founder of Girls Who Code. She says our society puts too …
Culture Crash: Audiobooks
Audiobooks used to be big, cumbersome collections of tapes. Now, they’re simply files on our phones, and their portability and …